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“Only women, children and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the condition that he provide something.” — Chris Rock

Suicides Hit Record High Last Year In U.S., Men Are Vast Majority Of Deaths ......Suicides climbed to a record 49,500 last year, putting the suicide rate higher than it has been since the beginning of World War II, according to government data released Thursday. Suicide deaths rose 3% in 2022, jumping by more than 1,000 deaths, the new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show.....Men took their own lives nearly four times as much as women.....A total of 39,255 men committed suicide last year, compared to 10,194 women. Both numbers are higher than in 2021, when suicides spiked 4% and a total of 38,358 men and 9,825 women took their own lives....White men have the highest suicide rate among male racial groups with about 50 suicides per 100,000 men, the CDC said.... ......Male suicidality has been a known crisis for years. Risk factors for men can be loneliness, social alienation, or a weakened sense of meaning or purpose in life, which can result from difficult events like losing a job or the dissolution of a man’s nuclear family, such as through divorce, according to academics. White people made up about 75% of all suicides last year, with more than 37,000 deaths. White Americans are also about 75% of the population, according to last year’s U.S. Census data. Older adults ages 45 to 64 had the highest jump in suicides last year, with nearly 1,000 more suicides for a total of more than 15,000 deaths. However, men 75 and older have the highest rate compared to other age groups, 42 suicides per 100,000 men..... ......Historically, male youths are more likely to die by suicide, while teen girls tend to attempt suicide more often, with about a third of high school girls in the U.S. saying they seriously considered suicide in 2021, according to CDC data. Notably, teen girls’ rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm spiked in the early 2010s just as social media use was becoming ubiquitous.....Suicides rose every year starting in the early 2000s until 2019, when they dipped slightly before spiking again in 2021 as people struggled with the ongoing pandemic.... https://www.dailywire.com/news/suicides-hit-record-high-last-year-in-u-s-men-are-vast-majority-of-deaths

If you steal someone's dog, you should be shot down on the spot. I'm sure someone will say that's an unreasonable response. I'll say you don't mess with someone's dog. Who does that?

‘Deep Wounds Have Been Reopened’: Dem Louisiana Gov Orders Clemency Review For 56 Death Row Inmates .....Inmates include man convicted of raping and stabbing a four-year-old girl.....The Democrat governor of Louisiana has ordered a clemency review of 56 of the 57 inmates on death row — including a man convicted of raping and stabbing a 4-year-old girl — after the 56 inmates filed applications....Governor John Bel Edwards decided to order the review after the leading GOP challenger to replace him in November, State Attorney General Jeff Landry, issued an advisory opinion urging the state’s parole board — all of whom were appointed by Edwards — to consider all applications as non-viable. Landry said the board should not ignore its policy — which requires clemency requests to be made within one year of judges issuing appeal rulings — unless extenuating circumstances applied, such as an imminent execution date. Landry pointed out that the execution dates for the prisoners were not imminent..... .....“The broad and ill-defined waiver in (the rules) ostensibly empowers the board to repeal portions of its own rules and enact new ones at will, on an ad-hoc basis, and without any notice to the public,” Landry wrote, The Advocate reported. “Such a result is impermissible under Louisiana law.” In late July, Louisiana’s Board of Pardons and Committee postponed hearing clemency applications death row prisoners had submitted in June in which they asked for life sentences instead of execution.....“Beyond moral justifications, there are a number of reasons, whether based in law or science, that support the need for mercy while considering these applications,” Edwards wrote to the parole board. “Over the last 20 years in Louisiana, there have been six exonerations and more than 50 reversals of sentences in capital cases.....” ......“The governor is out there right now trying to circumvent a constitutional pardon and parole system,” Landry said in an interview with NOLA. “Every one of those people on death row has had a jury of their peers convict them not once but twice.”....Loren Lampert, the executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, called Edwards’ action “inappropriate and a direct affront to the victims and their families.”....Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore III, a Democrat, agreed with Landry, saying, “Because of the governor’s request today, deep wounds have been re-opened yet again for victims who thought this issue was decided. When will this emotional roller coaster for these victims end?....” https://www.dailywire.com/news/deep-wounds-have-been-reopened-dem-louisiana-gov-orders-clemency-review-for-56-death-row-inmates

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/topic/514837-cancel-target/?do=findComment&comment=7280500 Posted by @dogcows 05/30/23 at 7:58PM "The LGBTQ army is coming for your kids! Get into the doomsday bunker NOW! You can come out in 10 years, it ought to be safe by then. Bye!" ******** Charlotte Pride Lists Child Sex Offender As ‘LGBTQ’ Award Recipient ....Charlotte Pride, a leading LGBT pride organization in Charlotte, North Carolina, has listed a child sex offender as the recipient of its 2023 Harvey Milk Award for exceptional “LGBT+” advocacy. Chad Sevearance-Turner, a former music minister who served years in prison for sexually abusing a minor boy, will receive the award this year, with the group praising him as an “influential advocate for LGBT+ issues,” Reduxx reported. Sevearance-Turner and several other honorees, who were dubbed “Champions of Pride” on Charlotte Pride’s website, will be honored as part of this year’s Charlotte Pride festival, scheduled for the weekend of August 19 and 20. Sevearance-Turner, 45, is president and chief executive officer at the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit that “supports LGBT+ and allied businesses” in North and South Carolina.... ....The first case involved a 14-year-old boy who testified that he spent the night with Sevearance-Turner at one of the other victims’ houses and awoke to Sevearance-Turner fondling his genitals. The boy also testified that Sevearance-Turner invited him to spend the night at his house, and when he did, Sevearance-Turner asked him how he would feel about a man performing oral sex on him.....The second boy, who was 15 at the time of the alleged incident, testified that Sevearance-Turner invited him to his house and showed him a pornographic video of sex between a man and woman. The boy went to sleep in the same bed as Sevearance-Turner and awoke to Sevearance-Turner fondling him, the child said....The third boy, who was also 15 when he said the incident happened, said Sevearance-Turner made the same advances to him when he stayed at the boy’s home for three weeks and fondled him multiple times...Sevearance-Turner was eventually convicted in 2000 of performing a lewd act on a minor under 16 and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served just two years before being released on parole....He is currently listed on the North Carolina sex offender registry..... .....The Harvey Milk Award, named for the famous gay activist in 1970s San Francisco, is presented every year “to honor exceptional leadership, service to the community, and those who champion LGBTQ causes that impact the Charlotte community and beyond,” according to Charlotte Pride.....The 2023 Charlotte Pride festival has sponsorships from Amazon, McDonalds, Bank of America, Bud Light, Lowe’s, NASCAR, and Krispy Kreme, among other major companies....This is not the first time Sevearance-Turner’s child sex offender status has been unearthed while in a position of influence....In 2016, Sevearance-Turner resigned as president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce after his child sex offender conviction became known. He said at the time that his past had not stopped him from being successful..... https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlotte-pride-lists-child-sex-offender-as-lgbtq-award-recipient

It extends a little further, and yet even worse. It's not just "Defund The Police", it's also using tax dollars to pay for private security, get priority coverage from local police departments and federal law enforcement, while at the same time trying to disarm civilians and remove more patrol officers off the streets that benefit every day working class Americans. Cori Bush, like everyone else in the House Of Representatives, was given a special security allotment, post J6, for security purposes. That's tax dollars. Another way politicians hide security contractors is to hire them within their campaign with a different job title. They can be a "policy analyst", but their real job is to sit in a chase car with a submachine gun with three other guys in an SUV following the elected official around to protect them. No local law enforcement agency with any common sense wants a Congressperson killed on their turf and under their ward, so they all get priority coverage. It's not just the anti-law enforcement rhetoric, it's that someone like AOC or Cori Bush are NOT living in the same areas and conditions as the every day working class. But they want to make it easier for the rank and file citizen to get outright massacred in the streets. Because it helps get their name in the national daily media cycle and helps with their fundraising. Cori Bush would rather all of you here, that you and your families get stripped of guns and that you are left out and abandoned to be targets for career criminals, so she can get a headline and pick up a few 20 dollar or 50 dollar donations. She sold her integrity cheap and she sold the lives of your children cheap too.

You bring up a great point about 911 calls and their response times. Thank you for adding it to the conversation, I appreciate it.

One of Trump's worst qualities is that he believes he is a hammer and the entire world are a bunch of nails. And then he decides he must hammer everything all the time. He just attacks. Non stop. Even when it's pointless. Even when it costs him. Even when it makes no sense at all. What's unfortunate is the trade off of body blows means all his core points are often dismissed. And many times they shouldn't be dismissed. He said Russia Gate was a political hit job and Obama spied on him. He was right. It took some time, but he was right. He said that the basis of the first impeachment, that "phone call to Zelensky", that Joe Biden was guilty of everything he was accusing Trump of doing. And as time goes on, that looks more and more true. He said if he got the opportunity, he would put in Conservatives onto SCOTUS, and they would likely vote to overturn Roe and put abortion rights back to the respective states. He said, he did it, and it happened as he said it would. He said a lot of things about the pandemic were politically motivated and the "cure can't be worse than the disease", and he was right. As time goes on, the cracks started to show and it all began to unravel. Now Rand Paul is going after Fauci and the entire Wuhan origin can't be hidden anymore. He said the FBI and the intelligence agencies were out to get him. And it's come to light. It's hard to deny it. He said Big Social Media and Big Tech were out to get him, not just the MSM. And the Taibbi files vindicate him in that regard Sure, Trump ends up saying A LOT of stupid things. Pointless things. But also he says things that are later proven true or worth a further look. Would it surprise anyone at all if more information came to light that the 2020 election was actually stolen?

People will tend to find "attractive" on what was normalized in their youth. If you grow up as the only white person in a predominantly black area, odds are, you'll find black people attractive. Or Asian. Or whatever. If you grew up on a farm and grew up doing heavy labor, you won't see "blue collar" people in the same way that someone who grew up with lots of traditional wealth will see them. If you are raised by a single parent, odds are you will be a single parent. Same for smoking and getting a college education. As American women, on the average, get heavier and heavier, across the nation, and it's happening younger and younger, then that's "normalized" I would tend to disagree here. If you are a single guy, good health, good shape, good career, take care of yourself, act like a decent person and don't have STDs, kids or a previous marriage/divorce, then you will have lots of options. They might not all be the options you want, but the standards for men are so low right now, that it's not tough to be competitive. Honestly, I could care less what people wear when it's not related to something in my life. For example, if I have 8 kids in public school or something like that, I don't want their teachers to dress like they are going to a club. If I hire an employee, I don't want them showing up to work looking like they are doing a porn video shoot. Simple things like that. Otherwise, I just don't care. Would it matter if I considered something like attraction? Sure. But if I've already decided I don't find them attractive, in private and in silence, then who cares. I'm big believer there are usually way more reasons to despise someone long before you get to their weight or their perceived inappropriate clothing or lack of it. Someone who is always late. Someone who is a flake. Someone who never pays their debts. Someone who complains all the time, etc, etc, etc. Something I've learned in this life is to never attempt to "negotiate" with a woman. On anything. I'm not invested in negotiating with women on being a different weight. If that's how they want to do it, let them. I could care less if they weep as they clip their catfood coupons in silence. It's not personal. I have real problems of my own. It's not like they are rushing to come and save me from my woes in life.

Denzel Washington has put on quite a bit of weight since the first Equalizer film. But he can compensate with charm, charisma, humor, career success, wealth, power, status, etc, etc. Abbie Cornish has put on a huge amount of weight since Sucker Punch. And society is just less forgiving of it. Would the women you know date and/or marry a man who was dramatically shorter than her? Dramatically poorer than her? Now you might cite some instances, but they would be exceptions to the general rule. Also those "exceptions" will likely have some mitigating factor ( i.e. woman is very low status herself, woman is aging and options are dried up, guys has massive wealth, guy is "known" or has status in a niche that the woman values, etc, etc) The majority of men are turned off by obese women, most single mothers and/or women who are proven to be sexually promiscuous ( if we are talking commitment for the last point) The majority of women are turned off by low status men, very short men and/or very poor men with no career success ( if we are talking commitment for the last point) You can default into being intentionally obtuse, because you don't like how any of this makes you "feel" But the hard simple answer is no one cares how you feel. The "mating/dating" marketplace isn't ruled on feelings. It's usually, and tragically, transactional in nature. In an idea sense, would it be nice if it all worked differently? Yes. But that's not reality. It's not what happens at the ground level.

The majority of men probably don't mind added weight in women in some "context" The reality is that very few women carry extra weight well. Some do. But it's rare. Sara Ramirez from early Grey's Anatomy was one of the few IMHO. In our society, women "trade" on their looks. So while many women will probably say they carry weight well, it doesn't matter what they think. It matters what men think. If men don't find you attractive, then you have nothing to "trade on" at all. The older women get, then it's just that much harder to be heavy and "carry that weight well" One of the big conflicts here is that the majority of women want to define what is attractive. They want to define it for themselves and they want to define how men SHOULD see it in their eyes. Which is totally insane when you really start to think about it. But in total, I'd rather just filter by character. I remove all low character people and zero character people out of my daily life. Filter out, not in. That's how most people could really save themselves here. Get rid of zero character people, and if you still want to date, see if there's anyone left, after you've run the full purge, where you find them attractive and have some good chemistry.

Democratic Representative Attempts to Tie Twitter Account To Witness During Weaponization Committee Meeting Marcus Allen: 'That Is Absolutely Not My Account'...California representative Linda Sanchez attempted to attribute a Twitter account to a witness during a Thursday Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government meeting....The meeting featured testimony from three FBI whistleblowers claiming the agency targeted pro-life groups along with practicing Catholics and parents attending school board meetings by identifying them as a domestic (terrorism) threats. Sanchez asked suspended FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen if he used Twitter, to which Allen responded he had “utilized” the platform. The California representative continued by asking Allen if his Twitter handle was XX@XXMarcusA97050645. “That is absolutely not my account,” ..... FBI staff operations specialist responded. Sanchez.... “On December 5, 2022, an account under the name Marcus Allen retweeted a tweet that said quote —” “That’s not my account, ma’am,” Allen repeated. “You haven’t let me finish the question, sir,” Sanchez contested. “The time is mine.” “On December 5, 2022, an account under the name of Marcus Allen retweeted a tweet that said, quote, ‘Nancy Pelosi staged January 6. Retweet if you agree,'” she continued, asking Allen if he agreed with the statement. Allen attempted to reiterate the account did not belong to him though was cut off by Sanchez who said, “I’m asking whether you agree with that statement, yes or no.” A number of lawmakers jokingly associated Sanchez with a user by the same name — who tweeted “Donald Trump is the greatest President of my lifetime” — in an attempt to demonstrate Twitter account owners may share the same name. https://timcast.com/news/democratic-representative-attempts-to-tie-twitter-account-to-witness-during-weaponization-committee-meeting/

Rep. Linda Sanchez ends leadership bid after husband’s indictment .....Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) on Thursday dropped out of the race to lead the House Democratic Caucus and faced questions about her political future following her husband’s indictment on federal criminal charges.....James Sullivan, Sanchez’s husband, was charged with misusing federal funds to cover personal expenses. Those alleged improper expenses include two trips with Sanchez to the Kentucky Derby, as well as a trip to Key West, Florida.....Sullivan was one of five people alleged by Justice Department prosecutors to have improperly diverted more than $1 million from a Connecticut energy cooperative that received federal funds, according to a statement from the Justice Department. The FBI had been investigating the allegations for more than two years.....“Earlier today, I learned that my husband is facing charges in Connecticut,” Sanchez said in a statement. “After careful consideration of the time and energy being in leadership demands, I have decided that my focus now needs to be on my son, my family, and my constituents in California.....” ....Sources close to the 49-year-old Sanchez said she has no thoughts of resigning or retiring from office. However, the allegations against Sullivan directly involve Sanchez, a former ranking member of the House Ethics Committee......Sullivan is alleged to have improperly charged personal expenses to the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative, a consortium of six municipal electric utilities. These alleged improper expenses included taking Sanchez to the Kentucky Derby in 2013 and 2014. Those trips were first reported by the Norwich Bulletin in early 2017.....In addition, Sullivan expensed a trip for Sanchez to Key West in December 2014, according to the Justice Department, as well as paid for trips back and forth to Washington.....At the time of those trips, Sullivan was serving as chairman of the Norwich Board of Public Utilities Commission, which oversees Norwich Public Utilities and is part of the CMEEC, the Bulletin reported.....The CMEEC was the recipient of $9 million in federal funds between 2010 and 2015, according to Thursday’s indictment, which brought the FBI into the case....Sanchez’s office said the California Democrat received approval for the Kentucky Derby and Key West trips from the Ethics Committee. The trips were not disclosed on Sanchez’s annual financial disclosure forms..... https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/08/linda-sanchez-house-democrats-978770 **** If Sanchez (HOR-D/CA38) hadn't gone after Pelosi, she wouldn't have been investigated at all. But she's clearly incompetent. Couldn't bring down Pelosi, couldn't find the right "Marcus Allen", couldn't hide her fraud with her husband to keep him from prison. Couldn't find a way to use J6 as a means to try to reboot her stalled political career.

Indiana Woman Fatally Shot Man Who Held Gun To Her Husband’s Head, Police Say ....An Indiana woman shot and killed a man as he held a gun to her husband’s head, police said. Police said the incident happened at a home in Salem on Monday evening around 6:40 pm.....Michael Chastain, 45, drove through the front yard of the couple’s home before grabbing the husband, forcing him to the ground, and pointing a gun at his head, according to investigators. His wife saw the situation from inside the home and shot Chastain with her handgun, the investigators said....Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call and found Chastain in the front yard with a gunshot wound. He was transported to Saint Vincent Hospital in Salem and was later pronounced dead.... .....Chastain is also known in the area and has a criminal background, Indiana State Police investigators said.....The wife was not charged at the scene, but it is not clear whether charges will be filed against her in the future. Police did not provide the identities of either the husband or the wife....Salem is a town of about 6,200 people that sits about 100 miles south of Indianapolis....Indiana has a “Stand Your Ground” law that allows residents to use force to defend themselves.....“A law has been put in place you can use force against another individual,” Sergeant Matt Ames of Indiana State Police told local outlet WTHI in April. “If they believe the force is imminent or it can cause serious bodily harm to themselves or another individual.....” https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiana-woman-fatally-shot-man-who-held-gun-to-her-husbands-head-police-say ***** Or maybe Americans are buying guns at record rates for the past four years because it's obvious at this point that our current society and social order are starting to fall apart. And the threat can be of any race and/or background. It's too late. Team Blue has lost the entire "gun debate" in modern America. Ten percent of all guns this country were sold in the last four years. That's a staggering rate. Each new "gun owner" becomes a new Pro 2A advocate. Each successive "gun grabbing" law now impacts those folks directly. It's "taking something" from them. Now they have skin in the game. You cannot have public policy that abandons civil order and the working class then also try to take their guns at the same time. It's just a bright neon sign that says they should submit and surrender to just being prey and targets.

Government Job Handed To Hunter Biden’s Art Buyer Is Notorious For Corruption, Foreign Influence-Peddling ....The wealthy Democrat donor who paid Hunter Biden for a piece of his hyper-expensive artwork was appointed to a federal commission known for years for corruption, secrecy, and as a vehicle to advance the financial interests of its members.....Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali, who has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrat politicians over the years, was appointed by President Joe Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. The commission post is one Hunter knows well — it’s the same position President Barack Obama handed to Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin in 2015..... ......The reason Hunter’s associates gravitate to the notoriously corrupt commission may have to do with the lack of attention paid to it—it’s the sort of government agency where a director could pocket a six-figure government salary while building lucrative foreign relationships. Schwerin suggested to Hunter after Obama was elected that the commission could be beneficial for leverage with foreign governments, according to emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.....At the time Schwerin was put on the commission, its executive director, Jeffrey Farrow, was earning $143,000 a year for working what amounted to a one-day-a-week job. In 2013, the agency’s only full-time employee, Katarina Ryan, filed a complaint with government investigators saying Farrow didn’t even work one day a week. Instead, Ryan said, Farrow spent 90% of his time running a for-profit international lobbying firm out of the government office. His lobbying practice brought in up to $750,000 a year, according to lobbying disclosures.....“This is a classic example of using a public office for private gain,” she wrote in a whistleblower complaint, “but what makes it particularly reckless is to have the Federal government subsidize expenses for a lobbyist.....” .....The final inspector general report was hidden from the public until Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) requested it as part of a Senate Homeland Security investigation into the commission. Even then, the commission’s chairwoman, Leslie Weiss, called the GSA “seeking advice on how to withhold the report from the committee.” Johnson received the report only by going directly to the GSA, he said in a 2015 letter to the commission.....The inspector general found that people associated with the obscure government agency used it as a personal piggy bank and routinely falsified paperwork. “Invoices were designed to consume the maximum amount of taxpayer dollars that could be allocated.....”....To sidestep federal rules, it designated Farrow and other employees as contractors, even though they were acting as employees and signing contracts on behalf of the agency, which is illegal, the inspector general found. The commission also hired other contractors from a company run by Farrow’s cousin.... ......Though the exact timing of the art buy is not known, Naftali was appointed to the federal post in July 2022, eight months after Hunter’s first art opening, Business Insider reported. Hunter’s artwork sells for as much as $500,000, and while the Biden administration had claimed that only the art gallery would know who purchased it — the Business Insider report says Hunter learned the identity of at least two of the buyers....Naftali has contributed large sums of money to Biden and his allies in recent years. Just last year, she hosted a fundraiser that was headlined by Vice President Kamala Harris. She has visited the Biden White House more than a dozen times, most recently in March of this year, according to official visitor logs.... https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-post-handed-to-hunter-bidens-art-buyer-is-notorious-for-corruption-used-to-buy-foreign-influence

How can anyone rationalize the Biden Administration spending untold billions to feed, house and process illegal immigrants, when it's clear many large cities and states cannot support them in any fashion already, while using ACTUAL TAX DOLLARS, then doing absolutely nothing as housing costs and the entire pathway around that collapses on working class every day Americans. How can you ask actual hard working taxpayers to support illegals and essentially pay to house them, when many of these exact same Americans are struggling to house themselves?

Biden Wants To Build Housing For Illegal Immigrants At Border: Report ....President Joe Biden is reportedly asking Congress to approve a housing program for illegal immigrants at the southern border as part of his $40 billion emergency funding request....Biden’s plan would provide housing for illegal immigrants where they could come and go as they please while the Department of Homeland Security puts them through an expedited process, Axios reported.... ....Biden’s proposed housing program would give illegal immigrants the freedom to leave during the day before they would have to check in and stay the night at the housing facility, a DHS official told Axios......The president took heat from the Left earlier this year when he reportedly considered returning to detaining illegal immigrant families, a policy he harshly criticized former President Donald Trump over. The president’s apparent reversal on the issue came at the end of Title 42, a Trump-era public health order that forced illegal immigrants to await their asylum claims in Mexico due to the COVID pandemic..... .....U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested just under 100,000 illegal immigrants in June before the number spiked to more than 130,000 in July. In the Tucson, Arizona, sector, U.S. agents arrested around 40,000 illegal immigrants in July alone — setting a 15-year record for the sector, according to CBP data...Biden’s $40 billion emergency spending request includes $4 billion to address the border crisis, which is $20 billion less than he requested be sent to Ukraine, according to POLITICO..... https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-wants-to-build-housing-for-illegal-immigrants-at-border-report ***** Many American citizens are struggling to find affordable housing, including many minorities, and particularly minorities in many impoverished urban areas, but Joe Biden wants to take American tax dollars and spend them to house illegal immigrants. They are free to run around all day long, doing who knows what, some of them will be working for Cartels and other criminal organizations, but if you are an American citizen who can't afford rent instead? Too bad.

Trump signs loyalty pledge: RNC has been very fair to me Sep 3, 2015